FREE! Over the course of the Civil War, Marylanders and residents of neighboring Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia broke the Mason-Dixon Line. Before the war, that perceptual boundary stood as a firm division between different aspects of American society: North and South, freedom and slavery. Yet during the Civil War, the question of loyalty shattered that clear division. Lord Baltimore Fellow, Charles Welsko will discuss Maryland’s place in the Union, along with how Mid-Atlantic residents articulated their loyalties to the Union or Confederacy reshaped regional boundaries and borders between 1861 and 1865.

Over the course of the Civil War, Marylanders and residents of neighboring Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia broke the Mason-Dixon Line. Before the war, that perceptual boundary stood as a firm division between different aspects of American society: North and South, freedom and slavery. Yet during the Civil War, the question of loyalty shattered that clear division. Lord Baltimore Fellow, Charles Welsko will discuss Maryland’s place in the Union, along with how Mid-Atlantic residents articulated their loyalties to the Union or Confederacy reshaped regional boundaries and borders between 1861 and 1865.